Word: buckingham
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...Queen still travels in a gilded stagecoach from Buckingham to Westminster to deliver her speech to the members of parliament, even though the speech is now written by the government and consists of an official outline of its political projects for the new parliamentary session. The speech is still delivered before the House of Lords, even though that chamber ceased to have real power many years ago. An officer in a funny dress still summons the members of the House Commons to listen to the Queen's speech, and the Commons still slam the door in his face and keep...
...people love monarchs and princes. If the British were to abolish the monarchy what would become of their tourist trade? Would elderly couples from the Midwest still stand in line to see the Throne Room in Buckingham Palace? Level-headed reasonableness and practicality sometimes advise compromise with imperfect institutions. And as far as imperfect institutions go, the monarchy is a fairly harmless...
...problem for teachers and administrators has been to combat entrenched stereotypes of all the houses. "House A tends to view itself as a mini-BB and N [Buckingham, Browne and Nichols, a private high school in Cambridge] and Fundamental wants to be Matignon [a Catholic high school in Cambridge]," notes bilingual program teacher Arnold Clayton. "The Academy's reputation is that it is a house for foreigners and immigrants. But we've had the salutatorian the past two years...
...light on the subject, Smith--author of bios of CBS founder William Paley and international socialite Pamela Harriman--amply and sympathetially documents Diana's precarious mental state and her need for sustained professional help, a need that could never have been met while she remained within the netherworlds of Buckingham Palace and celebrity hangers...
DIED. SIR HUGH CASSON, 89, British architect and former president of the Royal Academy of Arts; in London. In 1951 Casson oversaw the construction of London's first major postwar buildings. He later designed rooms at Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace...